I have to pay a penny extra in order to send a foreign letter on the same day by the night mails, and even so I have to go, or to send, to Central District offices. Worse than all this, and a positive outrage upon six millions of Londoners, it is impossible to have a letter delivered on Sunday at a less cost than 10d. This sum I have frequently paid during the last few months, owing to serious sickness in my family. It is all very well to say that I can use the telegraph, if away; but a telegram costs 6d. and you cannot possibly say in a telegram what you may wish to say in a letter.
"There is no metropolis in the world that is so shamefully served in the matter of letters, especially in the matter of this outrageous Sunday interdict, as London."
P.M.-Gen.: This is one who would set fire to the Post Office to roast his eggs. Snub him.
Wrongs without Remedy
Sec.: Now we have numerous attempts to make you pay for accidents to postal packets during transmission. The favourite argument seems to be that, since a common carrier is liable for loss or injury of goods entrusted to him, you ought to be. They forget you are not a common carrier, but a State official, protected from liability by Act of Parliament.
P.M.-Gen.: The total liability for loss and damage would be but a small portion of my annual profit, but I cannot disobey an Act of Parliament.
Sec.: Here is our answer to a claim for some postage stamps stolen by a postman:
